CreativeLive – Fix it in the Mix with Kurt Ballou (TUTORIAL)

By | December 21, 2025

 

Release Year: 2015
Producer: CreativeLive
Producer’s Website: www.creativelive.com/courses/fix-it-in-the-mix-kurt-ballou
Author: Kurt Ballou
Duration: 04:58:04
Type of Material Shared: Video Lesson
Language: English

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Description: The best way to get a great recording is to start with great sources, but that’s not always possible. Occasionally, you’re stuck with a less-than-perfect recording, and the only thing you can do is try and clean it up. Fortunately, there are reliable methods for restoring bad audio recordings, and Kurt Ballou will teach you everything you need to know in the course “Fix it in the Mix.” The best way to get a great recording is to start with great source material, but that’s not always possible. Occasionally, you’re stuck with a less-than-perfect recording, and the only thing you can do is try and clean it up. Lucky for you, there are reliable techniques for restoring poorly recorded audio, and Kurt Ballou will teach you everything you need to know in Fix it in the Mix.
While drum replacements with samples and reamping guitars are often effective ways to rebuild a sub-par recording, they are time consuming and can diminish the uniqueness of the original recording.
Fix it in the Mix will explore organic approaches to recovering and enhancing the natural tones from the original performances. Kurt will use recordings from real world scenarios and walk you through, in detail, the audio restoration process.
In Fix it in the Mix, Kurt will show you how to think outside of the box to come up with creative solutions to audio restoration problems every engineer has faced.

Content :
01-02 Intro and Overview 13:05
03 General Techniques 31:05
04 Kick Drum Techniques 18:18
05 Kick Drum Questions 22:47
06 Tom Drum Techniques 22:04
07 Snare and Tom Q&A 26:02
08 Overhead Mic Techniques 23:26
09 Room Mic Techniques 04:04
10 Overhead and Room Mic Q&A 19:53
11 Bass Guitar Techniques 10:19
12 Guitar Techniques 12:09
13 Vocal Techniques 07:48
14 Master Bus Techniques 08:16
15 Drumatom Techniques 34:17
16 Snare Drum Techniques 15:57
17 Kick Drum Techniques II 13:40

Example files: none
Video format: MP4
Video: AVC, 1270×720, 16:9, 23.976 fps, 1520 kbps
Audio: AAC, 48.0 kHz, ~125 kbps, 2 channels


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